orca enthusiast / cat media theorist / contingent academic
next time someone tells you AI is inevitable 👇
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Op Ed: Spare a thought for my prospects for generational wealth transfer!
Vince ManciniOh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!
A reminder that many universities are foisting this tech on students while slashing the training that would help them evaluate its outputs
SolomonPlease cut that 💩 OFF share.google/D3ScIGG10c70...
wracking my brain to remember what was going on 20 years ago…
Carl QuintanillaRBAdvisers: “.. Why isn’t this nonstop talk? The 30-Year Bond Yield is back to the levels not seen in nearly 20 years!”
great news for everyone who was forced to buy SpaceX stock through Nasdaq index fund 3 days ago!
TechCrunchChina's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
The fiasco of the 2024 Columbia campus clearances made abundantly clear what uni admin think of students: they are mere generators of revenue and will be disciplined with Pinkerton armies.
profchanderi quit.
People are actually being killed by people who are hopped up on hormones and ICE bonuses
Julie Rei GoldsteinSean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, says he walks around worrying that someone who's hopped up on hormones and Trans surgeries is going to try and kill him.
The largely conservative student body at the school where I work is really only ever capable of critiquing perceived “bias” in cultural objects (by which they just mean “leftist” thinking). So believe me when I say I’m gonna have a field day with this in the Fall.
HypervisibleAcademics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
What if we combined the phantasmatic productivity gains of the New Economy with the leveraged debt of 2008 and the “we’ll mine asteroids” infinite growth solutionism of the 70s, then multiplied all that by 10…?
Christopher MimsWhat if the AI productivity boost has been vastly oversold? "...for each dollar that companies spend on AI coding tools, 44 cents goes towards fixing AI-generated bugs, 27 cents goes towards rewriting the code, and 11 cents is lost to other inefficiencies" www.hardresetmedia.com/p/are-we-bet...
The Trump 2.0 smash and grab really does put the lie to the notion that there is a “fix” to the current crisis of accumulation. The options appear to be managed decline or accelerationist carnage.
The BulwarkTrump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
If you thought Bovino’s demotion would change anything, you fell for it
Matt McDermottVideo from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
Sorry, no, this is not a “political realignment.” This is very much in keeping with the techno-libertarianism that has dominated Silicon Valley’s executive class for decades. They were naming their kids and companies after Ayn Rand characters back in the 90s.
The InformationThe Brockmans’ move into Republican megadonor territory highlights a broader political realignment underway in Silicon Valley. https://thein.fo/49FCQZS
People better equipped than me to think about this: how does the Trump regulatory picture on AI dovetail with the Brenner/Riley articulation of “political capitalism”?
Alondra Nelson🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“What the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.“
ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | DefectorOn Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...defector.com